The puja consists of washing the lingams in cow's urine and milk, smearing them with sandal and turmeric paste, throwing flowers on them, and waving incense and burning camphor before them.
On the day appointed for milking the animal, the boy bathes, and proceeds to milk it into a new hone purified by smearing a paste of Meliosma (tud) leaves and bark over it, and heating it over a fire.
For example, the practice of smearing the face with it is very widespread among females, and, thinking that it will give their husbands increase of years, women freely bathe themselves with turmeric water.
Gertrude looked high and low for the oil can, and when she finally found it, she had no feather to use in smearing the oil on.
The whole malheur, I say, comes from this damned note-smearing of yours!
And close beside the lamp, eyes glittering, cruel cunning in every line, the flush of anger smearing it, was the face of Rhues!
He could feel the smearing of blood across his chest as his clothing held it in.
It is made by spreading a sheet of writing paper on a hot plate or stone and smearing it with wax.
Crows may be killed by twisting up a piece of paper like an extinguisher, dropping a piece of meat in it, andsmearing its sides with bird-lime.
The spot was quiet, Benito, clotted red smearing his shoulder, seemed as lifeless as the red man.
Tsin and Ts'u had agreed to waive the ceremony of smearing the lips with blood, to choose a victim in common, and to lay the text of the treaty upon the victim after a solemn reading of its contents.
When marriage follows close on betrothal, the girl is taken to the houses of her relations, and goes through the nalugu ceremony, which consists of smearing her with turmeric paste, an oil bath, and presentation of betel and sweets.
Wilson [34] is of opinion that the word Pandaram is 'more properly Panduranga, pale complexioned, from their smearing themselves with ashes.
As a matter of fact, the wearing of the namam of Vishnu, or the smearing of the ashes of Siva, is of no meaning to a Paraiyan.
A ceremony of smearing vermilion on the bride before a wedding, which is believed to bring good fortune.
In Chhattisgarh and Bengal the principal marriage rite is usually the smearing of vermilion by the bridegroom on the parting of the bride's hair, and elsewhere this is commonly done as a subsidiary ceremony.
The smearing should be done just before dark, and I have always found that better success attends this method of collecting when two are engaged in it--one to hold a bull's eye lantern while the other bottles the specimens.
This consists in smearing a mixture of sugar and vinegar, or some similar compound, on the bark of trees or on the boards of fences, and visiting the spot from time to time to collect the moths attracted to the bait.
The smearing of Chapelhope was finished in less than one-third of its wonted time.
He confessed, however, as he was shedding them from the white ones, that there was a ewe of Brownie's smearing came running by very near him, and he could not help giving a great jump out of her way.
This trail is made bysmearing a piece of wood with the "medicine" described at page 153, and dragging it on the line of the traps.
This may be made by smearing the preparation on the sole of the boots and walking in the direction of the traps, or by dragging from one trap to another a piece of meat scented with the substance, as described under the head of Mink.
They are generally made after the principles of the above described; either sewing or nailing the edges of the bark together, and smearing every joint and seam profusely with pitch, and adding gunwales, lining, and ribs.
These are often very troublesome, yet they may be greatly benefited or entirely removed by smearing them thickly with pure olive oil after each milking.
The pain may be allayed by smearing with a solution of opium or of extract of belladonna.
If the lameness has not disappeared by the tenth day, the blister advised for the sprain of the shoulder should be applied and the same precautions observed as to tying the animal's head and subsequent smearing with vaseline.
Smearing is a disgusting business, but joy comes after.
Onondagas," persisted Peter, smearing his face with his spoon to lick it.
The mode of applying it in these cases is by smearing the hand of the operator with white or colored clay, and impressing it on the breast, the shoulder, or other part of the body.
Theocritus refers to a Greek custom of smearing the side-posts of the gateway with the juice of magic herbs, as a method of appeal to the guardian deity to influence the heart of the dweller within toward the suppliant at the door.
The hair-dressers adopt the plan of smearing hard pomatum over the skin immediately surrounding the hair, to protect it from the dye.
By smearing with oil and a little carbolic acid and glycerin, or, in difficult cases, applying carbolised glycerin to the papules and commencing pustules, might be tried.
So among the Kenyahs of Sarawak a medicine-man has been known to recall the stray soul of a child, and to fasten it firmly in its body by tying a string round the child's right wrist, and smearing its little arm with the blood of a fowl.
Still others have thought it resulted from the smearing of the fur with secretions from the anal scent glands.
Possibly, partly on this account, some have ascribed this color to the smearing of the fur with urine.
Then Seth Egbert slipped hurriedly back to the dressing-room, and started smearing the stuff all over Claff’s various belongings.
They tried it first on Bransby Williams at the Sheffield Hippodrome, smearing a quantity on a seat.
Flies on Sheep May be prevented by smearing with a composition made of two pounds lard or soft grease, one pound sulphur, half pint oil of amber, or oil of tar, or tar alone.
Smearing or Salving Sheep Is a custom little practised in this country.
For this practice in many ancient religions, and its substitute, the smearing of the stone with turmeric or other red stain, see Jevons, Introduction, p.
Some interesting parallels to the smearing of the doorposts from modern Europe will be found collected in Samter, Familienfeste, p.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smearing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
